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In the second speech held by the University of Rhode Island chapter of the College Republicans highlighting its Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, author Robert Spencer lectured about the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists.

Author says Islamic fundamentalists threaten the United States and allies

By: Jeff Sullivan

Posted: 10/25/07

10/25/07 - In the second speech held by the University of Rhode Island chapter of the College Republicans highlighting its Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, author Robert Spencer lectured about the threat posed by Islamic fundamentalists.

In front of about 100 people, he argued that the main problem in America is leftists being more concerned with getting President George W. Bush and other conservatives out of public offices than the national security of America and its allies.

"Since 9/11, there have been many attempts to figure out what exactly happened that day and what continues to happen in the world since then," Spencer, who wrote books on Islamic themes including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World's Most Intolerant Religion, said. "A great many, if not most, of these explanations have focused on what it is the United States has done or has been doing ... to provoke this, and what can we do to make sure that this does not continue to happen."

Spencer also said that it is this negative ethnocentric viewpoint that perpetuates the global idea that the United States is more responsible for war on Western culture than other countries.

"If this is not a problem that the United States provoked, it is also not a problem that the U.S. can end solely by its own actions," Spencer said.

Spencer said the other problem with dealing with Islamo-Fascism is that the politically correct media today cannot bring itself to discuss it, for fears of inadvertently insinuating that all Muslims are fascist.

"How then do you propose we speak about groups that call themselves names like Islam and Jihad," Spencer said. "What are you going to call them if you cannot even use the name they use for themselves?"

The Chinese author Sun Tzu who wrote The Art of War, said, "know thy enemy and know thyself," and it in this area of expertise that the majority of Westerners are severely lacking, he said. The Islamo-Fascist movement's most primary goal is to unify all Muslims into an Islamic state, from which they would attack the rest of the world and impose Islamic ideologies on all peoples.

"I don't think anything is less likely to happen than a unified Islamic state, but it is obvious from today's headlines that they will commit acts of violence to this end," Spencer said. "But they also pursue the same agenda through nonviolent means, most of which are completely unrecognized and unnoticed by Western legal and governmental authorities because they do not study, and they are cowed and intimidated into not studying the motives and goals made clear by the statements of the Jihadists."

Police had to step in when a man who identified himself as a professor at Ain Shams University in Cairo went to ask Spencer questions and refuted Spencer's statements.

He then asked the lecturer what he thought the solution to Islamo-Fascism was. Spencer defended his sources, but it did persuade the audience member and after 16 minutes of debate, the professor was asked by one of the three on-duty URI police officers at the event to stop because of time constraints.

When Spencer answered the professor, he said the main reason why the United States is so concerned with the Middle East is oil, and America has to start actualizing alternative energy sources or it will be dependant on foreign oil and its related problems.

"I think above all we need to free ourselves from foreign policy dependence upon every and any state," Spencer said. "And that means we need to institute the Manhattan Project to find alternative energy sources. It's real criminal negligence on the part of the current administration that there are, as far as I know, no steps being taken in that direction."